Manducatory

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing. not-comparable

    "manducatory organs"

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chewingruminant

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"[…] they hadn’t just been killed but annihilated, and more especially their thumbs, teeth and feet. That their functional, spiritual and manducatory organs had been systematically destroyed."

Etymology

From Latin mandūcāt- + -ory.

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